Section 2500-A. Test for phenylketonuria and other diseases and conditions

(a) It shall be the duty of the administrative officer or  other  person
  in  charge  of  each institution caring for infants twenty-eight days or
  less of age and the person required in pursuance of  the  provisions  of
  section  forty-one  hundred thirty of this chapter to register the birth
  of a child, to cause to have administered to every such infant or  child
  in  its  or  his care a test for phenylketonuria, homozygous sickle cell
  disease,   hypothyroidism,   branched-chain   ketonuria,   galactosemia,
  homocystinuria  and  such other diseases and conditions as may from time
  to time be designated by the commissioner in accordance  with  rules  or
  regulations  prescribed  by  the commissioner. Testing, the recording of
  the results of such tests, tracking, follow-up reviews  and  educational
  activities shall be performed at such times and in such manner as may be
  prescribed  by  the  commissioner.  The  commissioner  shall  promulgate
  regulations setting forth the manner in which information describing the
  purposes of the requirements of this section shall  be  disseminated  to
  parents or a guardian of the infant tested.
    (b)  The provisions of this section shall not apply in the case of any
  infant or child whose parent or guardian is a  member  of  a  recognized
  religious  organization  whose  teachings and tenets are contrary to the
  testing herein required and who notifies the person charged with  having
  such test administered of his objection thereto.